HC Deb 20 October 1981 vol 10 cc109-11W
Mrs. Renée Short

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, North-East on 16 July, if he is now able to list all those universities which had students graduating from them in technological subjects in 1980, with the numbers involved; and what information there is on what percentage of them in each case subsequently got jobs.

Mr. Waldegrave:

The following table gives the total number of first and higher degree graduates in engineering and technology from each university in the United Kingdom during the academic year 1979–80. Information is collected in respect of the first known destination of these graduates between graduation and 31 December 1980. Not all graduates will seek employment directly, many will enter further education, while overseas graduates may return home. For all universities together, 64 per cent. of the first degree and 42 per cent. of the higher degree graduates were in employment by 31 December 1980. However, the corresponding percentages, excluding those entering further education or students from overseas returning home, were 92 per cent. and 97 per cent. respectively. It has not in the past been the policy of the University Grants Committee to disclose such information for individual universities. However, I am informed that its policy committee is to consider later this month whether to make this information available in the future. I shall write to the hon. Member in due course when its decision has been made.

Graduates in engineering and technology from universities in the

United Kingdom—1979–80

Aston 526 203
Bath 233 28
Birmingham 374 190
Bradford 290 133
Bristol 161 10
Brunel 173 80
Cambridge 359 86
City 281 66
Durham 59 2
East Anglia 4
Essex 74 38
Exeter 62 5
Hull 22 1
Keele
Kent 53 36
Lancaster 53 31
Leeds 577 213
Leicester 61 8
Liverpool 267 44
London Graduate School of Business Studies
London University 821 561
Loughborough 438 140
Manchester Business School
Manchester 260 49
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 353 268
Newcastle 307 119
Nottingham 327 58
Oxford 113 46
Reading 183 76
Salford 481 95
Sheffield 226 140
Southampton 260 146
Surrey 270 93
Sussex 78 22
Warwick 68 21
York
Aberystwyth U.C. 2
Bangor U.C. 52 12
Cardiff U.C. 191 33
St. David's Lampeter
Swansea U.C. 179 42
Welsh National School of Medicine
University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology 139 20
Aberdeen 56 6
Dundee 69 20
Edinburgh 89 9
Glasgow 183 22
Heriot-Watt 222 49
St. Andrews
Stirling 5 17
Strathclyde 373 100
Queen's Belfast 137
Ulster Coleraine
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